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On Friday 22 July 2011 18:41:26 Sebastian Beßler wrote: |
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> Am 22.07.2011 16:57, schrieb Alan McKinnon: |
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> > It may look like KDE is the likely culprit based on just the |
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> > information you provide, but I would be more inclined to look at |
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> > browser plugins first, concentrating on those with both Firefox and |
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> > Chromium versions from the same developer team. |
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> I have zero browser plugins installed. So that is not the culprit. And |
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> why should plugins lock up X when used under KDE but not under XFCE? |
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Maybe because you did not enable compositing in xfce4, but use it with kde4? |
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> The problem that X freezes with KDE4 is more likely with webbrowsers but |
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> happend when using other programms too. But because of the fact that one |
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> or more browsers are nearly always running it is hard to find a freeze |
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> without a browser running. |
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> > There could be a cornercase bug in KDE that only shows up on your |
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> > specific combination, or maybe there is some edge KDE app you use that |
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> > disagrees with violently with FF. Or maybe it's the video driver that |
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> > doesn't actually do what it tells KDE it can do (remember the |
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> > painfully slow nVidia drivers with early KDE4?) |
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> I use the opensource drivers for ati-cards. So t is unlikely to be |
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> driver related. |
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Well, have a look at http://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu- |
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bugs@××××××××××××.com/msg1483058.html for an example how the open source |
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atidrivers can hang X with firefox. Note that compositing was enabled here |
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(compiz). And here's another one: |
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436632 |
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> I use no edge KDE apps only amarok, yakuake, kate, konsole, dolphin, |
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> ktorrent from time to time. All of them but dolphin is still in use |
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> under xfce4 so I think I can rule them out too. |
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> I know it could still be a truckload of other things, but as a fan of |
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> Ockham's razor I still say that KDE4 is broken. |
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kde4 works for me, firefox works for me. I use closed source nvidia drivers. So |
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Ockham's razor tells us, the ati-drivers are broken. |
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Now more seriously: try attaching gdb to the hanging process and get a |
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backtrace. You are affected by some bug in some OSS. If you want to be helpful, |
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provide the necessary info. Even if you don't understand the backtrace, others |
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do. |
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> Greetings |
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> Sebastian Beßler |
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Regards, |
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Michael |
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